Friday Jun 20, 2014

The Duke's Choice Awards are nominated by members of the Java community and recognize compelling uses of Java technology or community involvement. Anyone in the Java community may submit a nomination. Innovation is the main consideration. Submit nominations at java.net/dukeschoice through July 11th.

Winners will be announced at JavaOne San Francisco. In addition to the Duke's Choice Award statue, each winner will receive a full JavaOne SF conference pass and recognition in Java Magazine, Java Source blog, and OTN Java Developer Newsletter.

The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is excited to invite you to our first Virtual Technology Summit. Learn first hand from Java Champions and Oracle experts as they share their insight and expertise on using Java. The VTS includes tracks on Database, Middleware, Systems and, of course, Java. In the Java track, titled "Big Trends and Technologies," you will learn how Java lets you mine Big Data, build robust apps with HTML5, JavaScript and Java EE, and expand into the Internet of Things. Experts will present and you’ll be able to chat with them live online.

Sessions

Crunching, aggregating, analyzing, transforming: real world data science applications usually perform several processing steps, each step adding more value to your data. Architecting and coordinating these processing pipelines in an efficient way requires a good understanding of the underlying mechanisms of MapReduce algorithms and a few tricks you only learn after you processed several terabytes. This presentation will show how to architect efficient MapReduce pipelines, how to integrate your pipelines with external datasources, like Redis, MongoDB or even relational databases, how to decide the best granularity for a job and when investing in a MapReduce architecture really pays off.

The sea change in HTML5 is likely to shift the pendulum away from today's thin-client based server-side web frameworks like Struts 2 and JSF to JavaScript powered next generation rich clients. With strong support for REST, WebSocket and JSON, Java EE is well positioned to adapt to this change. In this heavily code driven session, we will show you how you can utilize today's most popular JavaScript rich client technologies like AngularJS, Backbone, Knockout and Ember to utilize the core strengths of Java EE using JAX-RS, JSR 356/WebSocket, JSON-P, CDI and Bean Validation. We will also introduce Oracle's own JavaScript rich client solution code named project Avatar.

How to Become an Embedded Developerby Angelia Caicedo, Java Evangelist and Java Embedded Expert

Jump into the Internet of Things using embedded Java. This session walks you through the steps required to start creating embedded Java applications by showing real examples of how to use GPIO and the I2C devices. See how easy it is to program embedded devices and have some fun!

The focus of OTN's Virtual Technology Summit is technology and code--there are no product pitches. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to learn from some of the best minds in the Java community.